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The West Wing Weekly

0.20: A West Wing Weekly Special to Discuss A West Wing Special To Benefit When We All Vote (with Aaron Sorkin)

The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

Tv & Film

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We’re back! The West Wing cast reunited for this special episode, so we got back together to discuss it. And Aaron Sorkin joins us to talk about his experiences adapting "Hartsfield’s Landing" for this voter turnout initiative. Please go to whenweallvote.org to donate!

For more, visit thewestwingweekly.com/020

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Joshua Molina.

0:10.5

And I'm Rishi Kei Shureway. And today we're discussing a West Wing special to benefit

0:14.4

when we all vote. And if you don't know what that is, here's the deal. The West Wing

0:18.4

cast and crew reunited for this special episode, which is the filmed, stage adaptation of

0:23.4

the season three episode, Hartzfield Landing, as a way to help promote voter participation

0:28.5

in the upcoming US election in November.

1:28.5

It's a filmed stage adaptation of the episode Hartzfield Landing, which is episode 14

1:50.1

from season three.

1:51.6

And this is a recorded podcast about the filmed adaptation of the stage. I don't know.

1:58.4

And we are bipedal organisms that are carbon based, speaking into microphones.

2:03.9

I have to say, by the way, there was a lot of many, many, many tweets devoted to trying

2:09.2

to harass us into doing this, which we kind of, although I flat out explicitly said

2:14.8

we would not be doing it, we always intended to.

2:17.4

That's true.

2:18.4

And it's night I have to say, you know, when did our podcast end last January?

2:22.7

This January.

2:23.7

Wow. This January. Isn't this January last January?

2:28.5

This January.

2:29.5

If this, if our podcast ended this January, what the hell is last January?

2:36.2

Anyway, my point is it's nice to see you again. We haven't spoken or seen each other

2:41.4

since then.

2:42.4

That's right.

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